Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story was right out of TV's spy-spoofing Get Smart! When a top CIA man named Hans V. Tofte advertised his Washington basement apartment for rent, another CIA man named Kenneth Slocum answered the ad and then grimly snitched that he had spied classified documents lying around Tofte's pad. In turn, Tofte grimly complained at the office that he had just been doing some homework on the papers-and then mentioned that $19,000 worth of his wife's jewelry had vanished after Slocum's visit...
...lucky if she is bathed once a month, immediately developed a rattle in the vicinity of her tail gate. In her defense, I must say that her only serious misbehavior, which occurred after I let a friend drive her, was a transmission tantrum violent enough to cause me to rent a car for the weekend. When I took her to the hospital, a team of transmission specialists and consultants was unable to find any organic disorder, leading us to conclude that she was just paying me back...
...collection, which included, aside from his works by Goya, Velásquez and El Greco, post-Picasso Spanish painters of promise. An abstractionist named Gustavo Torner, now co-director of the museum, persuaded him to try Cuenca, where a grateful mayor was happy to find someone ready to rent the hanging houses already undergoing exterior repairs...
...middle-aged Village Voice), and a presumably popular feature called "Slum Goddess," which consists of photographs of young girls who radiate "antiEstablishment qualities." The want ads are blunt and to the point. Sample: "Groovy, free spirit chick wanted to share West Village apt. with guy, 27. No rent...
...million. His Sterling Airways, run for him by a onetime SAS pilot, has on order two more Caravelles and a DC-6-B. Krogager is also building an eleven-story hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol and planning another on Rhodes. The company is about to rent a computer for data processing to supplement Krogager's staff...